The forager’s plate

The forager’s plate Conscious catering
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The forbidden fruit pavlova, fig leaf infused whipped cream, gives coconut and vanilla notes. Fruits gathered from aban...
02/02/2026

The forbidden fruit pavlova, fig leaf infused whipped cream, gives coconut and vanilla notes. Fruits gathered from abandoned orchards, homegrown and gifted pears, poached with syrup, star fruit, passion fruit, figs and foraged rose of Sharon hibiscus flower that were pressed. I used an old family hand written recipe from my paternal grandmother, Nannas kiwi pav recipe, it didn’t come out totally perfect but it was lovely to cook ancestrally while the rain drizzled down outside today

Walk and talk edible w**ds with me .place.farm We will take a look at some common edible plants that may grow alongside ...
25/08/2025

Walk and talk edible w**ds with me .place.farm
We will take a look at some common edible plants that may grow alongside or even in your vegetable patch or lawn at home, how to ID and use and integrate eating w**ds into your everyday meals. A look at what edible w**ds contribute to flavour profiles and nutritional values. 10 dollars from each ticket helps support ravens place and the regenerative farming practices and permaculture farm that the beautiful Rachael from .a.little.greener runs on site. This is a 2.5 hour workshop in the tw**d valley NNSW. Included with your ticket is a coffee and light w**dy morning tea, so you can taste some of the plants that we will be learning about during our time together. Tickets available here https://www.ravenplace.com.au/event-details-registration/w**dy-walk-talk or hop over to .place.farm link for tickets in bio // foraging forever love Chanterelle ###

Finally, to wrap up my edible flower week, a look at some of the most unique and beautiful edible flowers I have have th...
31/05/2025

Finally, to wrap up my edible flower week, a look at some of the most unique and beautiful edible flowers I have have the pleasure of eating. 1. Queen of the night cactus flower, that I tempura battered. 2. Day Lilly, best to get the buds before they open flavour wise, young shoots and tubers also edible. 3 Saucer magnolia, slightly spicy ginger notes. Pickled were made and are still being enjoyed from last season. 4. Shell ginger, common garden plant, lovely battered like a banana fritter and had with ice cream for dessert. 5. Bougainvillaea flowers, once considered it edible because of infections caused by the thorns and sap, is a great food and drink colouring, and is used as a tea around the world, my advice is not to use when pregnant. 6. Fuchsia flowers, so yummy in salads, and the berries are one of my childhood favourite forages! I used to eat them in the garden and my mum would yell out I hope you are not eating those berries and flowers again Skye, and I was, and I told her they were edible, turns out I was right , lucky haha 6. Peach blossoms have a strong bitter almond taste and I’ve used them in syrups and for decorating sweets 7. Yukka flower spike, must be picked when blooms are still closed, resembling a large asparagus of which it is a cousin, it needs a short blanch in water to remove saponins. Before eating it tastes like artichoke. Foraging forever Chanterelle xx

Edible flower talk - Hibiscus, it’s edible yep, it’s medicinal as well. It’s a mucilage producing food which has anti in...
28/05/2025

Edible flower talk - Hibiscus, it’s edible yep, it’s medicinal as well. It’s a mucilage producing food which has anti inflammatory properties, it can help to lower blood pressure regulate cholesterol and blood sugar. The dried flowers are used as a tea in many different places around the world and even the green leaves are consumed in some countries. I stick to the single petaled varieties. You might be familiar with some of ***correction not native, but edible hibiscus like rosella (thanks Mel )in these pictures I have a purple variety that was a garden side forage on a quiet side road, and the elegantly named red sleeping hibiscus. Which true to its name the flowers droop over in slumber never to fully open to the sun. When processing for tea or drying to use as cake decorations etc I remove the stamen and green sepals at the base of each flower. The third photo shows an example of a whole pressed hibiscus used as a cake decorating idea. X foraging forever Chanterelle

Organic rose petal “scales” or maybe more like “eel skin” Edible flower inspiration hit me here and I saw the petals com...
26/05/2025

Organic rose petal “scales” or maybe more like “eel skin” Edible flower inspiration hit me here and I saw the petals coming together to form a delicate skin, inside is smoked eel, caught by myself and smoked on lemon Myrtle leaves, made into a creamy roulade. It’s best to use home grown or wild rose petals, as commercially available roses are sprayed with yucky stuff.

I thought this week I’ll take a stroll down memory lane looking at all the fun and beautiful ways I’ve used foraged edib...
26/05/2025

I thought this week I’ll take a stroll down memory lane looking at all the fun and beautiful ways I’ve used foraged edible flowers over the years. These ice cubes are so simple but have such a wow factor, why save this sort of thing for a special occasion? Why not eat and drink like a fairy princess every day ?

When life gives you pine needles, make some pine sugar. It’s a simple process and has a zesty lemony taste that goes wel...
26/05/2025

When life gives you pine needles, make some pine sugar. It’s a simple process and has a zesty lemony taste that goes well into many sweet creations. One of my favourite ways to use pine sugar is in these edible flower pine needle almond shortbread biscuits. In my travels I mostly come across slash pines (Pinus elliottii) but you can use radiata pine or spruce tips or fir needles. Forage the newest brightest green tips and bring them home into the kitchen to make pine sugar.
PINE SUGAR RECIPE
2-3 cups (approx) new pine needles
1kg of white sugar

Use a strong grinder or thermie, food processor, and use scissors to snip the brown ends off your needles. And cut into manageable pieces. Add in batches or in one batch if you have capacity to do so, to your blender and blitz on high for 30 -40 seconds. Remove and mix in a bowl with a large spoon to incorporate sugar evenly. Add back to blender just to combine properly. Store in an airtight container, it will be a ‘wet’ kind of mix.

PINE NEEDLE EDIBLE FLOWER ALMOND SHORTBREAD RECIPE - IN COMMENTS BELOW ⬇️
Let’s talk a little about edible flower - fresh is best for this recipe ( I’ve tried pressed and dried flowers and they tend to shrink and burn a little )
My recommendations and favourites to use include; begonias, native violets, pansies, dianthus, snapdragons, rosemary flower, scurvy w**d flowers, wild sorrel flower.
My favourites edible leaves to use, oxalis leaves (wood and other wild sorrels) yarrow leaves, violet leaves, chickw**d, tropical chickw**d ( consider that bitter and pungent herbs many over power and clash with pine sugar, so avoid basil and dandelion etc)
Foraging forever Chanterelle x

This is my most favourite tasting Australian native raspberry of the 8-10 indigenous varieties we have. Introducing Rubu...
08/04/2025

This is my most favourite tasting Australian native raspberry of the 8-10 indigenous varieties we have. Introducing Rubus moluccanus var trilobus. Family: Rosaceae. Genus: Rubus. Species: moluccanus var trilobus. It doesn’t really have its own ‘common name’ so now is a good time to talk about families. Binomial ones, and human ones if you’ve ever felt like me, barely grasping the branches of the taxonomic tree, botanical names and taxonomy can seem rather overwhelming. Let me break it down for you like this. Genus, is like the “surname” for a group a closely related organisms, so in this instance this is Ms Rubus, so “Rubus” gets the capital letter. Then if you knew her by first name you’d call her by the “species” name which in ye old Latin tradition always begins with a lower case letter. Being on first name basis with Ms Rubus would mean you’d call her moluccanus var trilobus, or maybe molucca for short. All of the raspberries are in fact in a greater “classification” or what you might think of as the Clan or Family name Rosaceae, which is, the rose family. Known to have 4,828 species or members of the family. If you’d like to learn a bit about botanical terms how to properly describe and document to be able to confidently identify plants and fungi in the wild join myself and botanical artist, permancliturist, and forager for a series of “Forage and Field Journaling” workshops soon to be advertised, our first event in collaboration with .permaculture

Obsessed with foraged still life arrangements
26/03/2025

Obsessed with foraged still life arrangements

Have you ever wanted to come Foraging with me? A long awaited Foragers Plate Workshop - “Introduction to fo...
15/02/2025

Have you ever wanted to come Foraging with me?
A long awaited Foragers Plate Workshop - “Introduction to foraging and wild food morning tea” Join me, in March 2025 for a forage and a wild food morning tea - location 20 mins from Byron Bay NSW
Comment “wild” and I’ll send you the link for the event - limited spots available.
https://events.humanitix.com/introduction-to-foraging-and-wild-food-morning-tea

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